Tuesday, January 9, 2007

DELTA MAN BEATEN FOR MISTAKENLY CALLING 911

Delta: A Delta resident, Jaskaran Singh Randhawa, was beaten and put behind bars on Thursday night for mistakenly dialling 911. “I was calling India and forgot to dial the international access number 011, before dialling India code. The call mistakenly went to 911. By the time I got a chance to explain it to the dispatcher that it was by mistake I dialled 911, the cops were in front of my house.” He told Indo-Canadian Online, “I tried to explain it to the police officers that it was all a big mistake, but they just pulled me out of my house and started beating me up. I was then taken to the police station and had to spend my night in jail.

Though the next day, Randhawa did try to make it business as usual, he could not get over the fact that he was mistreated by police officers for committing an innocent mistake. “My knees were aching and my arms were aching. But it was nothing when you compare that with the emotional trauma I went through that night. They made me feel like a criminal.” Randhawa contacted Indo-Canadian radio station RED FM and informed them about the mistreatment. He was featured on The Harjinder Thind Show. Randhawa has hired a lawyer and lodged a complaint against the officers. Charlene Brooks, Delta Police Department spokesperson, said that the department was investigating the incident.

44 comments:

pawan
said...

this really sounds unbeleivable. hows it possible. may be the reacted badly or was acting tough. i have called 911 so many times by mistake. but when they call back and tell them it was a mistake they understand. may be he told them too late. i would really like to talk to the guy. if you can give me his number.

If this incident is true and the details are as you report them, Indo-Canadians should call for an investigation.

I myself have heard the detectives of 52 Division in Toronto on two occasions say they took the law into their own hands and beat up two suspects they could not charge. This was a long time ago (1970), but I never again thought that Canadian police always operate within the law.

Canadian law enforcement is not perfect, but channels exist to protest against and have investigated incidents of police misbehaviour.

Canadian law enforcement is subject to Canadian law as are we all. While not perfect, it is "perfectible" through citizen action and protest. One can see that even the Commissioner of the RCMP is not above the law.

I still believe that the great mass of Canadian police officers remain honest, even if the officers in this instance may have broken the law.

Ok, he alleges that he called 911 by mistake and that the cops showed up and for no reason began beating them? I'm sure that cops do commit excesses from time to time, but that's just not a credible account.

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